LOUISVILLE, Ky.
Look closely during warmups Thursday, and you will notice only one Kansas player goes through shoot-arounds wearing wristbands.
On Wayne Selden’s right wrist is a white-and-pink band, a reminder to be strong — and of a friend he’s kept close for the last three years.
“It really just puts things in perspective,” Selden said. “When things aren’t going as well, you can look down at that and just be like, ‘If she fought through all that, why can’t I?’”
That friend is 9-year-old Karis Selk of Topeka, who first met Selden in September 2013, nearly a year after being diagnosed with a form of brain cancer.